Duke of Fife | |
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Creation date | 24 April 1900 |
Creation | Second |
Created by | Queen Victoria |
Peerage | Peerage of the United Kingdom |
First holder | Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife and 6th Earl Fife |
Present holder | David Carnegie, 4th Duke |
Heir apparent | Charles Carnegie, Earl of Southesk |
Remainder to | the 1st Duke's daughters by Princess Louise and the heirs male of their bodies lawfully begotten |
Subsidiary titles | Marquess of Macduff † Earl of Southesk Earl Fife † Earl of Fife † Earl of Macduff Viscount Macduff † Lord Carnegie of Kinnard Lord Carnegie Baron Balinhard Baron Braco † Baron Skene † Baronet 'of Pitcarrow' |
Seat(s) | Elsick House Kinnaird Castle |
Former seat(s) | Mar Lodge |
Duke of Fife is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom that has been created twice, in both cases for the Earl of Fife. In 1889, Lord Fife married Princess Louise, the eldest daughter of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.